"New America versus American Century Daniel Yergin, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Woolsey and the Hegelian Dialectic",
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As Daniel Yergin and his Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) attack the well-supported reality of Peak Oil – again – and Peak Oil educators shoot down Yergin and CERA’s unsubstantiated claims – yet again – we should take a step back from the minutia of the debate and examine the situation as a dialectical construct.
The Hegelian Dialectic: thesis – antithesis – synthesis
Hegel never used “thesis – antithesis – synthesis” to describe his dialectics, but this has come to be the simplest explanation of what he was describing. For every thesis there inevitably arises an anti-thesis: for every opinion or position there is always the opposite opinion or position. The Hegelian Dialectic is essentially the process of conversation and debate striving towards an agreement (synthesis) between opposing views to form a new understanding (thesis). But once we arrive at a new thesis there is, of course, a new anti-thesis, and thus the process continues. The more exclusionary control that can be exercised over this process within public debate (think Democrats & Republicans / neo-cons and neo-liberals / right & left), the more control the elite can exercise over the masses.
A man who operates with precision and mastery in the dialogue of public policy decision making is Zbigniew Brzezinski; former National Security Advisor to President Carter (a Democrat), co-founder of the Tri-lateral Commission and registered Republican. In his now infamous book titled The Grand Chessboard, published in 1997, Brzezinski laid out the geo-strategic importance of the Middle East and Central Asia as being the regions where the next major global conflict(s) would take place. In this book Brzezinski says the “imperial mobilization” necessary to commandeer the world’s remaining hydrocarbon reserves would be hard to embark upon without a catastrophic and catalyzing event on par with Pearl Harbor.
A group of men who call themselves the “neo-cons” took up Brzezinski’s chessboard and created The Project for a New American Century (PNAC). In 2000 these men took the Whitehouse. The neo-cons also recognized that a “catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor,” would benefit their dreams of imperial mobilization. Well, the new Pearl Harbor they all publicly prayed for came and went, and just as they had predicted, it helped to speed up the process of American imperial mobilization.
But now Brzezinski is singing a much different tune. When Israel embarked on its failed war in Southern Lebanon, Brzezinski publicly stated the following on numerous occasions:
These neocon prescriptions, of which Israel has its equivalents, are fatal for America and ultimately for Israel. They will totally turn the overwhelming majority of the Middle East's population against the United States. The lessons of Iraq speak for themselves. Eventually, if neo-con policies continue to be pursued, the United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the beginning of the end for Israel as well.
Brzezinski publicly voiced this strong opinion on July 20, 2006 – about one week after Israel invaded Lebanon – at The New American Foundation American Strategy Program, where Daniel Yergin sits on the Board of Directors.
Source: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/IndividualItemPages/PostOilBulletinIssueNumberFour.html
